* Provide a local climatology for intensive, short duration field campaigns. * Further facilitate regional studies of coastal processes by providing infrastructure that supports easy access to electrical power and data. * Provide a reliable system of rugged sensors that allow opportunistic sampling of extreme events. * Provide continuous long term (25-30 years) observations for climate studies. * Provide a flexible system capable of supporting a wide range of instrumentation and platforms, such as AUV docking stations. * Provide a means for public outreach and educational programs. * Contribute to a larger network of observatories and platforms for real-time observations that can help verify and improve ocean and atmospheric models.
The MVCO includes a small shore lab located between the hangars at Katama Air Park, a 10-m meteorological mast near the South Beach Donnelly House, a subsurface node mounted in 12-m water depth approximately 1.5 km south of Edgartown Great Pond, and an air-sea interaction tower (ASIT) equipped with a top-side node to allow access to air-side or underwater instrumentation at the 15-m isobath. The meteorological and subsea instrumentation are connected directly to the shore lab via a buried electro-optic power cable. The core set of instruments at the meteorological mast measure wind speed and direction, temperature, humidity, precipitation, CO2, solar and IR radiation, momentum, heat, and moisture fluxes. The core oceanographic sensors at the 12-m offshore node measure current profiles, waves, temperature, salinity, and near-bottom wave-orbital and low frequency currents.
In addition to the core set of instruments, the offshore nodes and the meteorological mast act as extension cords into the coastal environment, allowing connection of a wide range of instruments for prolonged deployments.
(Reference: <http://www.whoi.edu/mvco/description/description2.html>)
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, 2009, MVCO: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute's Martha's Vineyard Coastal Observatory component locations (ESRI POINT SHAPEFILE): Open-File Report 2008-1288, U.S. Geological Survey, Woods Hole, MA.This is part of the following larger work.Online Links:
- <https://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2008/1288/GIS_catalog/Basemaps/mvco.zip>
- <https://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2008/1288/html/gis.html>
Denny, J.F., Danforth, W.W., Foster, D.S., and Sherwood, C.R., 2009, Geophysical Data Collected off the South Shore of Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts: Open-File Report 2008-1288, U.S. Geological Survey, Woods Hole, MA.Online Links:
This is a Vector data set. It contains the following vector data types (SDTS terminology):
Horizontal positions are specified in geographic coordinates, that is, latitude and longitude. Latitudes are given to the nearest 0.000001. Longitudes are given to the nearest 0.000001. Latitude and longitude values are specified in Decimal degrees.
The horizontal datum used is D_WGS_1984.
The ellipsoid used is WGS_1984.
The semi-major axis of the ellipsoid used is 6378137.000000.
The flattening of the ellipsoid used is 1/298.257224.
Sequential unique whole numbers that are automatically generated.
Coordinates defining the features.
| Range of values | |
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| Minimum: | -70.5667 |
| Maximum: | -70.5225 |
| Units: | decimal degrees, WGS84 |
| Range of values | |
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| Minimum: | 41.325 |
| Maximum: | 41.362 |
| Units: | decimal degrees, WGS84 |
Name of the MVCO component
This shapefile was generated by the U.S. Geological Survey, however the source data and associated information are supplied by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute (WHOI) (<http://www.whoi.edu>).
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This dataset provides the location of the components to the MVCO and is used for reference purposes.
Software: ArcGIS 9.2
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Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, 2009, Martha's Vineyard Coastal Observatory (MVCO): Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, Woods Hole, MA.Online Links:
The MVCO components are positioned at fixed locations provided on the MVCO website: <http://mvcodata.whoi.edu/cgi-bin/mvco/mvco.cgi>.
All MVCO components listed on the WHOI MVCO webpage are incorporated in this shapefile.
The locations for the MVCO components were acquired from the WHOI MVCO web page at: <http://mvcodata.whoi.edu/cgi-bin/mvco/mvco.cgi>
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| Data format: | This WinZip file contains the ESRI point shapefile and associated metadata of the location of the MVCO in format WinZip (version 9.0) Size: 35 KB |
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